Noiseless window guide



May 19, 1925.

` G. A. REYNOLDS, JR

NOISELESS WINDOW GUIDE Filed June 16, 1922 Patented May 19, 1925.

UNITED STATS GEORGE ALLEN REYNOLDS, JR., 0F BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

NoIsnLnss WINDOW GUIDE.

Application filed-June 16, 1922. Serial No. 568,736.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. REYNOLDS, Jr., a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Binghamton, in the county of Broome, in the State 0f New York,- have inventedvnew and useful Improvements in a Noiseless Window Gulde, of which thefollowing, taken in connection witlitheaecompanying drawings, is ,a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates lto a noiseless win dow guide for sliding window glass as used more particularly inthe doors and panels of closed automobiles and analogous purposes.

These guides are'.preferably made of firm, heavy felt channeled longitudinally along one side and its longitudinal edges folded in the same direction to 'form' a U- shaped guide-strip adapted to be inserted in a suitable groove in the door or wmdow frame for receiving the opposite upright edges of the window glass and'guiding the same in its vertical movement, the main object being to provide a cushioned window guide which is practically noiseless and reduces the liability of breakage of the glass.

Heretofore-so' far as I am awarethese guide strips have been shipped to the users or manufacturers in dat channeled form to be subsequently bent U-sha ed in cross-section and stitched along the ending lines to retain the desired cross-sectional contour.

This ystitching operation is necessarily painstaking and laborious and therefore time consuming and expensive, and the speciic object of my invention isto enable the at channeled strips to be shipped to the user in compact fiat or rolled condition and to provide means whereby the flat strips may be bent into the desired cross-section and retained in that osition solely by the bending operation, t ereby avoiding the necessity for stitching.

Other objects will be brought out in the following description:

In the drawings:

Figure lis a perspectivefview of a ortion of vone of the felt strips adapte l to form the desired window guide equipped with my improved form retainers but in fiat conditionl before bending.

. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section viatwisev through a portion of the same Strip showini` the bendable reinforcing wires therein. Y igure 3 lis a transverse sectional view of the same strip bent to the desired U-shaped form. v

Figure 4 is an end view of the guide strip after bending.

As illustrated, 'this device consists of a` strip -l-of lirm relatively thick felt of suitable length and width to form the def sired window guide and is preferably of uniform width throughout its length and provided with a central lengthwise channell of somewhatgreater width than the guidel groove which the strip is to form when folded orl bent to receive the glass, the por-y tions of the strip adjacent the opposite longitudinal edges of the channel being Scored by V-shaped grooves -3 to permit the opposite edges of the strip t'o be more easily folded along the score-lines. l

By channeling the strip along one side necessarily makes the central portion some-o what thinner than that of ythe opposite edges but ynevertheless sucient thickness for the insertionl therethrough of a series of transverse bendable wires -4- so that the will be entirely concealed within the fe t when the strip is bent for use as a window guide.

In other words, these bendablehwires are inserted transversely through the dat strip from edge to edge thereof and preferably in uniformly spaced relation longitudinally between' the inner and outer faces of the thinner portion of the strip and also between the inner and outer faces of the thicker portion of the edges or sidewalls of the channel. l i

The ends of the wires are usually sheared off substantially Hush with the opposite edges ofthe strip before bending so that when the opposite edges are bent in the same direction along the grooves orv scorelines -3- at substantially right angles to the thinner central portion, they will bevv in spaced relation transversely `to form the de sired intervening window-receiving guide gI'OOVea During this bending operation, the ends lofthe wire will be `drawn slightly inwardly from the edges of the felt `strip and owing to the nature of the felt, the openin formed by the insertion of the wire inA t e edges thereof will be automatically closed over the ends fof the wire to protect the same from exposure so that each of the wires will be ractically concealed within rthe felt while t e combined wires serve not only to retain the folded strip in its folded position Without other retaining means but also serve to reinforce the felt and thereby to add to its durability and strength. i

After the felt strips with theform-retaining Wires therein have been bent to the desired form and cut to the required length, they may be readily inserted and secured in place in the grooves of the Window or door' rame provided therefor to receive and guide the Window glass in its vertical Inove- Inent with the additional advantageof reventing rattle and protecting the g ass against breakage When the Wires -4- are bent in the manner shown in Figures 3 and 4, they constitute metal staples for retaining the cross-sectional form of the felt guide andv if desired, may be driven from the back into the sides of the felt after the latter has been bent to the desired U-shaped form.

beyond the grooves in longitudina grooves, the bendabl'e Wires serving1 what I Claim is: In a noiseless window guide, an elongated stripof felt having transversely spaced lengthwise grooves in one side be tween its opposite longitudinal edges, said felt strip having incorporated therein bendable Wires extending transversel of and ily spaced relation', the opposite longitudinal edges of the strip with the Wire therein being folded in one and the same direction along said to hold the longitudinal edges in their fol ed positions..

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of June, 1922.

GEORGE ALLEN REYNOLDS, JR. Witnesses:

RICHARD A. GRAY,

HENRY L. TAX. 

